President Macron calls Iran’s New President “quickly resume negotiations in Vienna

Macron, for his part, called on Iran to “quickly resume negotiations in Vienna in order to get to a conclusion and put an end without delay to all the nuclear activities it is carrying out in breach of the agreement," the French government statement said.

(COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on August 09, 2021 shows French President Emmanuel Macron reacts during a press conference at the Elysee presidential Palace, in Paris, on July 9, 2021. Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi looks on during his first press conference since his election on the weekend in the Islamic republic's capital Tehran, on June 21, 2021. - Iran's new President Ebrahim Raisi on August 9, 2021 told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that negotiations with world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear deal must guarantee Tehran's "rights". This is Raisi's first reported call with a Western leader since taking office last week. (Photos by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN and ATTA KENARE / various sources / AFP)

New Iran president calls Macron about stalled nuclear talks

NASSER KARIMI

Mon, August 9, 2021, 7:42 AM·2 min read

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — In his first phone call to a Western leader, the new president of Iran asked his French counterpart Monday to help secure Iran’s “rights” in now-stalled talks to revive Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.

Ebrahim Raisi, the hard-line cleric and protégé of Iran’s supreme leader who took office last week, told French President Emmanuel Macron that the U.S. and European Union must implement their commitments under the landmark 2015 deal, the official IRNA news agency reported.

France, alongside the U.S., Germany, Britain, Russia, and China, was part of the original 2015 nuclear agreement and has played a prominent role as an intermediary.

“In any negotiation, the rights of the Iranian nation should be secured and guaranteed,” he said, criticizing the U.S. for abandoning the accord and reimposing crushing sanctions under former President Donald Trump.